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Research & Analysis
How Lutheranism and the Protestant Reformation altered gender roles in the 16th century.
Emphasizing how women in the past were able to exercise their bodily autonomy and how it became violable.
An analysis of women's roles in the abolition movement and sugar boycotts examining how their roles and actions were gendered.
An essay about the intersection of gender, empire, and consumption through the experience of grocery shopping in early modern England.
This essay highlights the roles, experiences, and kosher practices of early modern Jewish women and their families.
An analysis of how Europeans described white women accused of witchcraft and the women of color that they encountered through empire and colonization.
An analysis of the intersecting European gender ideologies with emerging ideas of race and racial difference.
An analysis of how Mary I, despite being England's first female monarch, was able to use religion to overcome patriarchal stereotypes and exercise her authority.
Despite the Enlightenment period bringing forth new ideas of skepticism, reason, and scientific knowledge, women and individuals continued to cling to natural remedies passed down in recipe books from generation to generation.
An analytical essay about the connection between witches and midwives with a focus on the life and trial of Agnes Sampson.
This research aims to further explore women’s participation and contribution in the fields of healthcare, healing, and medicine production, especially in early modern England.
How print media influenced public opinion and fanned the flames of hysteria during the witch craze
How literature reflected sentiments of women in the early modern period
A research paper on how women exercised autonomy in medicine during early modern Europe.
This Pub is a commentary on menstruation in early modern Europe, including the misconceptions around menstruating, as well as how those understandings were used by men to control and by women to resist.
Women's Mobilization and Influence through Consumer Culture and Culinary Activities in Revolutionary France
An analysis of how increased access to sugar from British colonies allowed for the rapid popularization of afternoon tea in the 19th century.
